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Nearly all models of computation assume some sort of logical engine to run the computation on that is not impacted by the environment. | Nearly all models of computation assume some sort of logical engine to run the computation on that is not impacted by the environment. | ||
==Problems== | ==Problems== | ||
| − | * The "Computer" or computation engine is a part of the environment and any action is dependent on its construction and | + | * The "Computer" or computation engine is a part of the environment and any action is dependent on its construction and possibly on the environment where it is run. |
| − | * We know from "side channel attacks" and | + | * We know from "side channel attacks" and defects in the computer chips that the environment always as some impacted on the computation, even when all attempts are made to minimize those effects. |
| + | * When real world computing devices, like the human genome, are run, the "computer" is just the egg cell which brings with it all sorts of environmental effects. | ||
| + | * Viruses attack the operation of the computing engine in both carbon-based and silicon-based life forms. | ||
| + | * See the wiki page on [[Prion]]s for details on "side channel" attacks against computing using the human genome. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
[[Category: Glossary]] | [[Category: Glossary]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:47, 13 November 2024
Definition
Computation is the process of using algorithms to working through a problem.
Etymology
- From the Latin - with thinking, to settle, to make clear, to reckon[1]
Assumptions
Nearly all models of computation assume some sort of logical engine to run the computation on that is not impacted by the environment.
Problems
- The "Computer" or computation engine is a part of the environment and any action is dependent on its construction and possibly on the environment where it is run.
- We know from "side channel attacks" and defects in the computer chips that the environment always as some impacted on the computation, even when all attempts are made to minimize those effects.
- When real world computing devices, like the human genome, are run, the "computer" is just the egg cell which brings with it all sorts of environmental effects.
- Viruses attack the operation of the computing engine in both carbon-based and silicon-based life forms.
- See the wiki page on Prions for details on "side channel" attacks against computing using the human genome.
References
- ↑ W. W. Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Oxford (1882)
